Orders From The General Leadership Advice From A Two Star General

Orders from the General: Leadership Advice from a Two-Star General is a unique perspective on leadership and is a must read for those individuals who make leadership knowledge and self-improvement lifelong goals. Written in an easy-to-read style, the author provides military and nonmilitary leadership advice, often using positive and negative examples as reinforcement. The reader will be drawn to these examples and will quickly realize how these examples apply to their individual lives and careers. Using the very best of the “military mindset,” the reader will learn to rise above leadership challenges and to bridge the gap and apply these lessons to all fields and endeavors. The book contains “leadership tips,” which are a great way to consume the ideas of the book and can be used for years to come. An absolute must add to your leadership library.

Orders from the General: Leadership Advice from a Two-Star General is a unique perspective on leadership and is a must read for those individuals who make leadership knowledge and self-improvement lifelong goals. Written in an easy-to-read style, the author provides military and nonmilitary leadership advice, often using positive and negative examples as reinforcement. The reader will be drawn to these examples and will quickly realize how these examples apply to their individual lives and careers. Using the very best of the "military mindset," the reader will learn to rise above leadership challenges and to bridge the gap and apply these lessons to all fields and endeavors. The book contains "leadership tips," which are a great way to consume the ideas of the book and can be used for years to come. An absolute must add to your leadership library.

On June 23, 2008, President George W. Bush nominated Ann Dunwoody as a four-star general in the US Army-the first time a woman had ever achieved that rank. The news generated excitement around the world. Now retired after nearly four decades in the Army, Dunwoody shares what she learned along the way, from her first command leading 100 soldiers to her final assignment, in which she led a 60 billion enterprise of over 69,000 employees, including the Army's global supply chain in support of Iraq and Afghanistan. What was the driving force behind Dunwoody's success? While her talent as a logistician and her empathy in dealing with fellow soldiers helped her rise through the ranks, Dunwoody also realized that true leaders never stop learning, refining, growing, and adapting. In A Higher Standard, Dunwoody details her evolution as a soldier and reveals the core leadership principles that helped her achieve her historic appointment. Dunwoody's strategies are applicable to any leader, no matter the size or scope of the organization. They include lessons such as "Never Walk by a Mistake," a mandate to recognize when something is wrong, big or small, and to hold people accountable. Not only can this save billions for industry, it can sometimes save the lives of soldiers and citizens. She also advises that "Leaders Aren't Invincible-Don't Try to Be": to be our best, we have to acknowledge our worst. And she encourages readers to "Leverage the Power of Diversity" by creating teams of people from different backgrounds to provide a broad range of ideas and devise the best-informed decisions. With these and other guiding principles, A Higher Standard offers practical, tactical advice that everyone can use to lead and achieve with maximum success.

This work stresses the importance of the human element in military leadership.

In 1976, armed with a college degree and a commission as an Army 2nd Lieutenant, Vinny Boles began his leadership journey. After 33 years of service, he has distilled this experience into his book, 4-3-2-1 Leadership: What America's Sons & Daughters Taught Me on the Road From Second Lieutenant to Two Star General. "Leadership is not a solo event, it is a team sport," Boles says. "And in the Army it's a team sport at the highest level. And I was truly fortunate to have great teammates in every one of these 33 years."

The title of the book says it all. The Be-Know-Do of Generalship. Generalship is possibly one of the most difficult words to define. It is leadership with a difference that demands varied skills from the very basic to the most sophisticated. It is a position of responsibility like none other. It demands making decisions in the most complex environment pregnant with VUCA character. It carries with its position the heavy weight of values and expectations that have come to characterise military leadership since millennium. A General is the face of the system, is always naked and always under scrutiny by soldiers who expect him to be God like. The book is laid out in two parts. Part I, comprising six chapters covers every aspect of Generalship in a 'self-help' easy to assimilate style to develop oneself to be an inspiring General relevant for the future. Part II, comprising Chapter VII is an honest and a dispassionate appraisal of the Indian military leadership since independence. It makes a convincing case to address the existing institutional shortcomings with respect to Generalship and their selection in the Indian Army with de-novo recommendations not heard before. This book is a product of the author's four decades of passion and dedication to the profession of soldiery and the art of military leadership. It is an excellent tutor to BE the General you should be, to KNOW what you should know and to DO what you should do to be future ready and leave a legacy worth remembering. A unique book on the subject, it is a must read for officers of all service groups in any vocation, not only the uniformed services. This book is a ready recipe for those who aspire to lead with a difference.